Great news. Ebay drops seller charges!

Rod_Saetan said:

Addendum, it says you can arrange a collection, it isn't clear how that works though, and given there is a cost for that now I assume I am paying for the privilege and are not able to pass on the cost to the buyer?

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When you have sold something, and the buyer has paid, you'll be directed/instructed to 'Get postage label' or something like that.
Hitting that button opens up a new window with the buyers name & address on (by now they have already been charged for postage - unless of course you are paying), and on that page you will see an option on the right hand side to arrange collection.
I haven't yet opted for an arranged collection so don't know the process beyond that, but that's where I spotted it. HTH

Rod_Saetan said:

No, you select either RM, Evri, or both and it fixes a price and service (and dispatch time too btw!) for the buyer to select then you have to work round that printing the label in store or, it says, you can arrange a collection but I'm unsure how that works yet. Also, even if you could buy via the RM website I would have to input all of my details and the address details, C&D as you no doubt knows speeds that whole process up by importing the orders.

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I can still set my own postage amounts and simply go to the RM website should I wish on my personal account.

How many items are you selling a day for it to be an issue of inputting the details?

I now do this;
1. Use the laptop to purchase eBay's RM labels.
2. Once you have them, don't print them, you're only getting them to obtain postage details.
3. Go on C+D to buy postage like before, and pay for it.
4. Go back to order details, scroll down to tracking info and change the tracking number to the one you just bought directly from RM.
5. Arrange collection on C+D website as before.
I do this because I cba to print the labels and take them to the PO. I just dump them outside my front door with the postcode written on and get on with the rest of my life.

d8mok said:

I can still set my own postage amounts and simply go to the RM website should I wish on my personal account.

How many items are you selling a day for it to be an issue of inputting the details?

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Yes, I could do that, and I am selling very few items a week, I just don't really see how moving from an integrated system where I only really had to input a weight and then pay to get my labels and arrange collection to one where I have to do it manually by copying and pasting is an improvement. Reader; it isn't. It worked fine before, it still works for other channels other than eBay now, its just eBay had to change the whole system and take away a functioning integrated system where the seller had control because they want to keep you there, keep you on eBay, running the money through them, giving them the data and be damned with personal inconvenience.

The fact they call it 'simple delivery' is a colossal misnomer, simpler for who? Were buyers struggling to purchase and receive items posted one way via Royal Mail tracked 48 that are now going to see a marked improvement having forced sellers to use the same service but in a more round-about manner?

bikeworkshop said:

Getting through to customer services ebay or evri is like an 80s zx81 adventure game

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Thorin has died

Rod_Saetan said:

Yes, I could do that, and I am selling very few items a week, I just don't really see how moving from an integrated system where I only really had to input a weight and then pay to get my labels and arrange collection to one where I have to do it manually by copying and pasting is an improvement. Reader; it isn't. It worked fine before, it still works for other channels other than eBay now, its just eBay had to change the whole system and take away a functioning integrated system where the seller had control because they want to keep you there, keep you on eBay, running the money through them, giving them the data and be damned with personal inconvenience.

The fact they call it 'simple delivery' is a colossal misnomer, simpler for who? Were buyers struggling to purchase and receive items posted one way via Royal Mail tracked 48 that are now going to see a marked improvement having forced sellers to use the same service but in a more round-about manner?

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It isn’t designed to be an improvement in terms of C&D. It’s to make life harder for businesses pretending to be private sellers.

Simple delivery is just bringing ebay in line with most other sites that do it that way.

Private sellers selling a couple of items a month , shouldn’t see any hardship in my opinion.

I guess if people don’t like it, they can go stand in the rain on a Sunday car boot and haggle over 20p

Totoro said:

Thorin has died

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Predicting the 2025 ebay user experience in 1983.

Lower buyer fees to make cheaper items more appealing:

Ha. Just received the same e-mail.
eBay clearly losing out to other platforms so adjusting their rules again.

It's a bit sh1t at the moment, if I sell something on a Sunday, post it on a Monday, it gets delivered by Wednesday, and I get the money on the Friday.

Looks like I'd better pull all my items and relist them for the new rates to take effect. Great.

Being the retro technophobe neanderthal that I am I recently sold an item on e-bay and bypassed the simple delivery and paid my own postage and hand wrote the postal address on the item package I had sold has I have done for the past seventeen years .
Of course e-bay generated its own label and tracking and I did not alter it to my tracking number that the post office had given me . The buyer received the item from me and left positive feedback .
E-bay withheld my funds because according to their tracking the item was still not delivered even though the buyer had left the positive feedback and was in receipt of the item. Fully aware I was going to get the runaround I contacted e-bay and was duly given the runaround by some AI generated bullshit which always left you back at square one . What is wrong with real human intelligence ?, oh sorry you have to pay and feed that even though e-bay must make billions .

Fortunately off of e-bay I found the e-bay call back number and spoke to a pleasant Irish gent who sorted it out for me . The Irish republic seems to have the monopoly on call centres these days having recently sorted my ninety year old Uncles phone out on EE and speaking to another Irish chap . My Uncle is deaf , my father is eighty three and very poignantly says old people today are being left behind and are really struggling with these technological advancements . It is a disgrace that old people are put through this especially with doctors appointments . Anyway I am going off Piste/Pista with this .